I've also been obsessing over the last three minutes of JT's "Strawberry Bubblegum." They're just really great. No further comments necessary.

Goddamn, man, thank you for saying that! Seriously, I kept thinking during the lead-up to the movie, doesn't Steve Carell know people already take him seriously as a very talented comedic actor? Like, Michael Scott isn't an easy role. I wasn't watching The Office and thinking, If only he'd drop all personality and act…

I wouldn't feel weird about recommending Melancholia, but I would feel very weird about recommending Antichrist. Not that I don't think you should watch both, but Antichrist really is one of the most shocking movies I've ever seen.

Were any friends of yours in the car? If so, do what someone I once thought I was friends with did and ask them to pay their share of the speeding ticket even if they weren't the ones driving. That will let them know where they stand.

Damn, Narrator, those are some hot takes. I don't necessarily disagree, and I was just thinking about Magnolia when I was walking my day yesterday and how good that scene is of Philip Baker Hall talking about a musical clue for the game show before fainting and how he should have won the Oscar, and then I remembered…

The naked knife-brawl in the prison showers in Eastern Promises is easily one of the very best scenes from any movie from the last 15 years.

I think Chris Ryan was closest when he compared that scene of Nora and Erika in "Lens" to the Joaquin/PSH processing scene in The Master.

Something about Steve Carell in Foxcatcher really rubbed me the wrong way. Obviously we can disagree on the quality of his performance, which I didn't think was good, but the calculation of him taking that role seems unambiguous. That's one of the most naked attempts I've ever seen of a (known for being comedic) actor…

You know what's awesome? Watching Goodfellas with someone who loudly quotes lines seconds before they occur in the movie. Oh, is slicing the garlic with a razor a very good system? Thanks, buddy.

Wow, I had totally blocked that one out of my memory because of how terrible it was. But just wow. The weirdly specific accuracy of that is making me cringe even now.

Oh god, at the NYE's party, when it cuts to him and Melora Walters sitting togetherly sadly at a table and with no context even though it's so obvious he's talking about his latest look, he just goes, "I'm pretty happy with it." So fucking funny.

Oh, and let's not forget about that scene in Boogie Nights where Buck is trying to buy some holiday-themed pastries and finds himself the only living person in the donut shop and then is able to open up a discount stereo store with the cash in a lunchbag-sized brown paper bag, thus fulfilling probably the happiest…

The Family Stone, man. I don't know if I actually like that movie or if it's a severe case of Stockholm syndrome, but I end up watching every December.

The Night Of The Hunter is easily my favorite example of this. It's just an undeniably awesome movie and then it ends during Christmastime with the shittiest gift-giving I've ever seen in my entire life. The young boy takes an apple that's sitting in the living room, wraps it in a doily, and does it up with a clothes…

I also watched Ex Machina within the last week and also really liked it, but as far as intimate sci-fi films go, I'm not sure if there will ever be a better one than A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Also, I wrote about watching Saturday Night Fever for the first time on last week's Staff's Picks, but I didn't even mention how smouldering hot Travolta is in his underwear near the beginning of the movie. I mean, he's hot as fuck during the entire thing, but when he's combing his hair, holy shit. It changed…

Samesies. I found out the other day that it will actually be playing a theater within driving distance of where I live.

Have you ever tried to do his Master-style hunch? It's tough to hold for any extended period of time.

I still have the nail and I'm thinking of doing a Ron Swanson thing where I tear it off in front of people who don't know I've already lost it.

I finished up Flesh And Bone earlier this week and I kind of fucking loved it. Like, it's definitely way over-the-top and definitely not great the way that Breaking Bad was great, but it was pretty enjoyable with a glass of wine in hand. So much locker room catty shit-talking that I loved. Ben Daniels was hysterical…